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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 97 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

So are they saying that having overseas military bases is a bad thing now, or?

[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They're trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out

[–] WHATABOUTISM_DETECTOR@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Precisely, bot

[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

those countries WANT those bases there!

[–] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Whereas China forced the countries to let them possibly consider propositioning them

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.

"legacies of empire" lmao. "We're not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!"

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

119 bases in Germany

119 bases in Japan

jokerfied

[–] Notcontenttobequiet@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

The US military is definitely not the fourth Reich

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 9 months ago

yeah but what this doesn't show is how many bases the US has in the US! the US is overseas from all of these bases